Re: [orca-list] Trying Quantal Quetsal Alpha 3

[Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com>]

But you still seem to have missed the point that I have found it much easier and productive doing everyday 
tasks such as e-mail, office applications and web browsing using Linux than I ever could do using Windows. 
Never mind lists of links. I never needed them, and found them useless when I had them. I navigate Firefox 
quite easily by the navigation keys provided. I do agree that PDF needs a bit of work, but PDF itself has 
much better rivals that I can read much better. After all, what in the world is wrong with HTML? It can 
certainly display anything that PDF can, and is much more accessible on many more platforms. Why did we ever 
let Adobe try to control our documents (PDF) and web pages (Flash) anyway?  As for music, I don't do much 
with sequencing and production, but I use Audacity all the time for recording and mixing. It has a couple of 
bugs related to accessibility, but it certainly beats that pricy thing called Sound Forge and produces much 
better recording effects.

BTW, just because Microsoft and Apple decided to mostly do away with the command line and text based 
interfaces doesn't mean that such interfaces shouldn't be counted among the choices we have. Knocking the 
command line as an option is a bad idea, as there are still many good things that make a shell quite 
productive. Having said this, I do tend to gravitate toward the graphical environment for most tasks, 
although I always keep a terminal open on desktop 1.

I don't write all this from an emotional attachment to an ideology, but rather from the prospective of 
someone who has not only found increased productivity, but also learned much more about how my computer works 
while still being able to just sit down at my computer and work without having to be a geek to get my work 
done productively. But yeah, freedom is great too.
~Kyle
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